C and C++

Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:11 pm

Are you planning to make a release with support for C and C++? Its kinda of a pain that you can only run applications written in asm. Also is there a browser or something?

Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:54 pm

It is already possible to write applications in C.
The articles on diamondz.land.ru might be a good place to get some info about it. (some articles are in english altough the site is in russian)

Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:35 pm

Hmm... Do you think you will support C++ next release? I'd also be cool if you could support java in the future... Btw when I use your os the mouse flickers a lot. I don't think its my pc because when I run windows it doesn't do that. Also it says I only support video modes 9 and 0, but I have pretty good graphics and such, maybe my hardware isn't supported by the os?

Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:53 pm

Your graphics card doesnt seem to be fully VESA compliant.
What brand of card do you have?
Kolibrios uses most graphics cards in VESA mode..

C++ should work, but as i'm not a c++ coder, i can't help you on that..
Java really is out of the question for now.
It would be a lot of work, and it's not wortht right now.

The mouse flicker could have something to do with VGA modes (0 and 9)

Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:23 am

Not sure, but it runs 1024x768(24bit). None of my C++ programs work on it :/. Are there some specail header files I have to include and write the extra stuff like it showed on the daimond site?

Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:21 pm

As already been said by hidnplayr, you need to read http://diamondz.land.ru/hll/hll_eng.htm to understand how to write programs for Kolibri using HLL such as C/C++. Kolibri is not Windows/Linux, it has its own executable file format thus some magic is needed to compile them. If you have any specific questions after reading the article go ahead and ask.

Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:32 pm

I'm currently learning Masm so I loked at the site and I followed how to assemble it my batch file looks like:

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cd C:\jbpub\Detmer\Software
ml /nologo /c /coff %1.asm
link /fixed /subsystem:native /base:-0x10000 /align:0x10000
		/merge:.data=.text /merge:.rdata=.text /nologo %1.obj

I get the following errors with link.

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>C:\jbpub\Detmer\KolibriOS\Make.bat test

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>cd C:\jbpub\Detmer\Software

C:\jbpub\Detmer\Software>ml /nologo /c /coff test.asm
 Assembling: test.asm

C:\jbpub\Detmer\Software>link /fixed /subsystem:native /base:-0x10000 /align:0x1
0000
Microsoft (R) 32-Bit Incremental Linker Version 5.10.7303
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1997. All rights reserved.

LINK : warning LNK4108: /ALIGN specified without /DRIVER or /VXD; image may not
run
LINK : warning LNK4001: no object files specified; libraries used
LINK : warning LNK4068: /MACHINE not specified; defaulting to IX86
LINK : fatal error LNK1159: no output file specified

C:\jbpub\Detmer\Software>/merge:.data=.text /merge:.rdata=.text /nologo test.obj

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

C:\jbpub\Detmer\Software>

What am I doing wrong?

Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:56 am

The problem is that last two lines in the batch file should be written in a single line.

Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:58 pm

Now I get...

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C:\jbpub\Detmer\KolibriOS>C:\jbpub\Detmer\Software\link /fixed /subsystem:native
 /base:-0x10000 /align:0x10000 /merge:.data=.text /merge:.rdata=.text /nologo te
st.obj
LINK : warning LNK4108: /ALIGN specified without /DRIVER or /VXD; image may not
run
LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __start
test.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:05 pm

Please make sure you have "_start" as a label for your entry point:

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        .486
        .model  flat

.data
; header
        db      'MENUET01'
        dd      1
        dd      offset _start
...
.code
_start:
...
        end     _start

Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:46 am

I get that on every code I try. I get LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _NtProcessStartup on this one.

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;Foofatron 2008

.486
.MODEL FLAT

ExitProcess PROTO NEAR32 stdcall, dwExitCode:DWORD

GetStdHandle PROTO NEAR32 stdcall,
    nStdHandle:DWORD

WriteFile PROTO NEAR32 stdcall,
    hFile:DWORD, lpBuffer:NEAR32, nNumberOfCharsToWrite:DWORD,
    lpNumberOfBytesWritten:NEAR32, lpOverlapped:NEAR32

STD_OUTPUT EQU -11

cr      EQU     0dh     ; carriage return character
Lf      EQU     0ah     ; line feed

.STACK
.DATA

Hello BYTE    "Hello World!", cr, lf
msgLng  DWORD   12   ; number of characters in above message
written DWORD   ?
hStdOut DWORD   ?

.CODE  
_start: 
        INVOKE GetStdHandle,    ; get handle for console output
          STD_OUTPUT
        mov    hStdOut, eax

        INVOKE WriteFile,
          hStdOut,              ; file handle for screen
          NEAR32 PTR Hello,   ; address of string
          msgLng,               ; length of string
          NEAR32 PTR written,   ; bytes written
          0                     ; overlapped mode

        INVOKE  ExitProcess, 0  ; exit with return code 0

PUBLIC _start
END

the batch file is:

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D:\jbpub\Detmer\
D:\jbpub\Detmer\Software\ml /nologo /c /coff Hello.asm
D:\jbpub\Detmer\Software\link /fixed /subsystem:native /base:-0x10000 /align:0x10000 /merge:.data=.text /merge:.rdata=.text /nologo Hello.obj  kernel32.lib

I tried to assemble the example for MASM on http://diamondz.land.ru/hll/hll_eng.htm but got the _start error... Same batch file as a bove just a diffrent name.

Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:01 am

Okay, you got me. Is this really that difficult to use MASM to develop for Kolibri? Let's see...
Suppose I'm in big love with MASM and want to use it to write programs for Kolibri. Even the fact that I'm running Linux on my home PC can't stop me and I set up Windows on virtual machine. What do I do next? I read the article, I go to http://movsd.com, download version 9.0 (latest) of the assembler and intall it. I also download and unpack FASM version 1.67.27 (latest) for Windows (http://flatassembler.org). Then I create a file with sample code from the article (in the root of C:\ drive) and use first two commands from the same article to compile and link it. Then I create "doasm.asm" file in the same directory (I get it from the article too) and execute third command.
Please tell me what am I doing wrong because I can't understand WHY the heck don't I get any errors?

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C:\>c:\masm32\bin\ml /nologo /c /coff hello.asm
 Assembling: hello.asm

C:\>c:\masm32\bin\link /fixed /subsystem:native /base:-0x10000 /align:0x10000 /merge:.data=.text /merge:.rdata=.text /nologo hello.obj
LINK : warning LNK4108: /ALIGN specified without /DRIVER or /VXD; image may not run
LINK : warning LNK4078: multiple ".text" sections found with different attributes (C0000040)
LINK : warning LNK4078: multiple ".text" sections found with different attributes (40000040)

C:\>c:\fasm\fasm.exe doexe.asm hello
flat assembler  version 1.67.27  (669592 kilobytes memory)
1 passes, 192 bytes.

C:\>

PS: your latest post has nothing to do with Kolibri (am I right?) since you can't use WinAPI to create Kolibri programs. Kolibri has it's own API you should learn: http://kolibrios.org/?p=Documentation&s ... ns&lang=en.

Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:33 pm

I wasn't using any windows api in that it was a command line program that said hello world! I was having trouble so I decided to write a simple program to see if it'd work... It work with the that verson of MASM, but how can I create like command line programs? Kernel32 won't work with Kos so is there a lib file or something for it?

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